My firm has offices both in Groton and in Ithaca, New York. We serve clients in Tompkins, Cortland and Cayuga counties. I am a lawyer with twenty years of practice experience in both state and federal courts. With an undergraduate honors degree from Brown University that included study at the London School of Economics, and a law degree from New York University and admissions to the bars of New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware, I have successfully advised both individuals and businesses in complex situations. Those successes include helping separating parents resolve their finances and create a stable environment...

JIM BARNA BRINGS A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE TO EMPLOYMENT LAW REPRESENTATION. Throughout his career, Jim Barna has focused his practice on employment law. Jim did his undergraduate studies at Syracuse University and Stony Brook University. Jim attended law school at Washington University in St. Louis, a Top Twenty law school with an extensive employment law curriculum. While in law school, he had the opportunity to work for a national leader in employment law and womens rights litigation, Mary Anne Sedey. “From Mary Anne Sedey, I saw that big cases can bring big changes, and that a life devoted...

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